NEUROCIRCULATORY ASTHENIA
Authors: W M BARTLETT
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1949)

Article1 May 1949NEUROCIRCULATORY ASTHENIAWALTER M. BARTLETT, M.D., F.A.C.P.WALTER M. BARTLETT, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-30-5-966 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe more symptoms a patient complains of, the less the significance of each. Every paper on the subject of Effort Syndrome from the day of DaCosta1to the present,2, 3, 4, 5has stressed the multiplicity of the symptomatology. MacKenzie6has pointed out the difficulty in describing the most common forms of disease, perhaps because of the fact emphasized by Starr7, 8that it may be no disease but an exaggerated physiology or what has been referred to in a previous publication9as a physiogenic form of abnormality of adjustment. Starr ingeniously compares effort syndrome with ordinary clumsiness of muscular...Bibliography1. 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Received for publication May 22, 1948.From the Department of Medicine and Surgery, Branch Office No. 5, Veterans Administration, and the Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.Published with permission of the Chief Medical Director, Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or the conclusions drawn by the author. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 May 1949Volume 30, Issue 5Page: 966-973KeywordsSurgery ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1949 PDF downloadLoading ...